Let's call it getting rich

A hint of orange appeared on the horizon and the temperature gradually rose.

　　Ah Hua and Ah Shu hurried back with water, seeds and dried meat, not daring to stop along the way. When they were near the safe zone, they ran into Li Long and his group who were returning from the other side searching for supplies.

　　They were carrying half of a long-eared star beast's skull skeleton, which was the leftover food from hunting other star beasts. There was still a lot of meat on it, and the faces of the group were filled with joy of harvest.

　　But after seeing Ah Shu and Ah Hua, Li Long's face fell and he stretched out his tone: "Isn't this Ah Shu? Where did he go?"

　　Li Long blamed Ah Hua for the encounter with the herd of long-eared star beasts, and drove Ah Shu out of his team. He also instructed the familiar search team not to let him participate, thus cutting off Ah Shu's way of exchanging food.

　　It is impossible to feed two people with the little food obtained from working in the safe zone. The only option is to join the hunting team, but this is a dead end for Ashu.

　　"He went to dig sand mushrooms, right? Without our help, he won't have enough to eat in the future." The others laughed sarcastically.

　　"At least digging sand mushrooms is not dangerous, it won't hold us back, and it won't kill anyone." Another person did not hide his malice. Among the people who died in the last accident was his brother. He watched his brother being trampled to death by the star beast but was powerless to do anything. He could only blame Ah Hua, the only one who came back alive.

　　Ah Hua glared at them angrily: "I didn't hold you back. You didn't care about me. I was lucky enough to meet a powerful person with a safe cabin and came back alive."

　　Li Long's team members: "I have been in the wilderness for so many years, and I have never known that you can live in the wilderness with just a wooden house. It is obvious that we led the star beast away for you, so you have a chance to survive."

　　"No, it's on the east side, and there are..." Ah Hua wanted to take out the water and seeds in the bag to prove it, but was held down by the quick-eyed and quick-handed Ah Shu. He bowed his head and apologized, "Sorry, it's our fault. It's almost dawn. We'll leave first." After that, he took Ah Hua and left in a hurry.

　　Ah Hua looked at her brother in confusion, "Brother, we can prove it."

　　Ah Shu lowered his voice and said, "If Li Long and the others find out, it will bring trouble to Sang Jiu."

　　Because it is far away and some distance outside the safe area, no one has discovered it for the time being. If people knew that there is water there and the temperature is comfortable, Sang Jiu will no longer have peace.

　　Ah Hua realized this later, "Fortunately they didn't believe me."

　　Ashu hummed: "We can't bring trouble to Sang Jiu."

　　After the brother and sister made their agreement, they hurriedly ran back to the safety zone with their backpacks. Li Long and his group who were left behind despised and mocked them, "You are so timid, so boring."

　　"What's in their bags? They're so bulging, it looks like a good harvest."

　　"I heard something like water sloshing around."

　　"Impossible?"

　　When Li Long heard this, he looked at the two people's bags meaningfully. After a while, he urged the people in the team to return to the safe area quickly. The weather was getting hot, and if they delayed any longer, the meat would rot.

　　Ahua and Ashu returned to their residence and carefully hid the water and food away from everyone's attention. They also found a piece of wood with a groove, filled it with soil, poured the turbid water they brought back into it, stirred the wet soil evenly, and then put in the water spinach seeds.

　　The brother and sister carefully placed the vegetables under the bed and said in a low voice, "Brother, when will it grow?"

　　"It will be there in a few days." Ashu stared at the place where the seeds were buried with full of anticipation, his heart full of hope. This was the only time in all these years that he was full of hope for the future.

　　On the other side, after the brother and sister left, Sang Jiu took a comfortable bath and went to sleep. After sleeping for an unknown amount of time, she heard knocking sounds outside the door.

　　She opened her eyes and found the room dark. She looked carefully and discovered that the light was blocked by a cat's head. The cat's head was covered with red blood. The smell of blood overwhelmed her and made her feel nauseous and want to vomit.

　　Sang Jiu walked out of the room angrily, "You stink too much, get away from me now."

　　The big cat quickly stepped back and pushed the half piece of rabbit meat that was as high as a mountain behind it in front of Sang Jiu, then squatted down obediently, looking like he was trying to please.

"Rabbit meat?" Sang Jiu looked at the fresh rabbit meat in amazement. "You went to catch rabbit meat after you ate it and left?"

　　The big cat patted the rabbit meat, pointed at the ten remaining unsprouted potatoes outside the kitchen, and meowed softly.

　　Sang Jiu understood: "...Want to eat potatoes stewed with rabbit meat?"

　　The big cat meowed again, and this is what it meant.

　　Sang Jiu raised her hand to cover her forehead 🙆. It was the first time she had seen such a greedy cat.

　　The big cat scratched the ground twice, then scratched the meat twice, indicating that it plowed the land before eating the meat.

　　"There is no land for you to plow at the moment." Sang Jiu looked helplessly at the huge pile of rabbit meat, about three tons, and she could not finish it. She simply could not finish it!

　　"There are not many potatoes. I'll use some to cook and you can eat the rest." Although the temperature inside the protective cover was not high, rabbit meat would go bad if left for too long. Sang Jiu took out some of the offal oil and two hundred kilograms of meat and put them in a basin, then put it in the well to cool. She took the remaining fifty kilograms to stew potatoes and gave all the rest of the meat to the big cat to finish it off.

　　The big cat had a big appetite, and a pot of stewed potatoes and rabbit meat was not enough to fill it up. It had gone for a snack after leaving last night, so when Sang Jiu gave it the food, it started eating it without hesitation, and finished more than two tons of raw meat in just a few minutes.

　　After eating, the big cat came to rub against Sang Jiu again, signaling that she could do it, but as soon as she got close, all kinds of sour and rancid odors instantly hit her face, causing Sang Jiu to subconsciously cover her mouth and nose: "You stink too much!"

　　The big cat shook its fur, trying to act cute, but ended up splashing all the blood and flesh on its fur onto Sang Jiu. She felt terrible: "!!!"

　　Seeing that she was unhappy, the big cat wanted to get closer and rub against her. Sang Jiu quickly stepped back and stretched out her hand to keep a safe distance: "Don't shake it, don't get close to me."

　　The big cat felt aggrieved: It's so difficult to eat something delicious.

　　"...Don't act cute with those eyes, I don't buy it... Oh, forget it, just take a bath first." Who can resist petting a cat? Even Sang Jiu, who has never had a pet, is no exception.

　　"Come here, I'll help you wash." Sang Jiu walked to the well and looked around. She felt that the well was next to the wooden house, and if she washed directly there, the house would definitely be flooded.

　　So she pointed in the direction of the black soil in front and asked the big cat to dig a five-meter square water storage pit at the edge, and built a canal from the well to the water storage pit, so that waste water could flow into it and be used to irrigate the land.

　　After digging in just over ten minutes, Sang Jiu scooped well water and poured it into the canal. Because the big cat was too dirty, she first took it to the puddle to wash it.

　　"Soak for ten minutes first." Sang Jiu went back to clean out the ashes under the pot, filled a wooden bucket and walked towards the puddle again. She found that the big cat was already playing in the puddle, stirring the water and sprinkling it everywhere, wetting the surrounding wheat fields and potato fields.

　　"Come out and I'll wash you." Sang Jiu motioned for it to come up, then poured wood ash on it and rubbed it. After rubbing it a few times, black water flowed down.

　　The big cat looked at the dirty and smelly water, moved back with a bit of disgust, not wanting to get close to the dirty water.

　　"Are you still dissatisfied? This is what came out of your body." Sang Jiu continued to wash it with a smile. Its body was so big that scrubbing it was a huge project.

　　After washing it laboriously twice, she returned to the well and rinsed it with clean water. After rinsing it more than ten times, the water flowing from the big cat's body became clean, and the cat's fur revealed its original color, a beautiful gradient silver-white.

　　The big cat shook off the water neatly, and its half-meter-long fur moved in the wind, instantly adding a sense of elegance. Sang Jiu looked at the fluffy fur and raised her eyebrows slightly: "It turned out to be a silver tabby Maine Coon cat. After washing, its appearance has risen ten levels. It has transformed from a little beggar into a domineering queen."

　　The big cat was a younger sister. It noticed that Sang Jiu was satisfied with it, so it rubbed its head against the back of her hand and meowed softly.

　　Sang Jiu did not avoid the big cat's approach this time, and rubbed its big head vigorously, "It's much more comfortable to touch now that it's clean. It feels so good."

　　"But there are still some dirt that hasn't been washed away. It would be nice if there was some soap and shower gel."

As soon as she finished speaking, the system's mechanical voice appeared in her mind: [The host can use the ancient method to make soap. ]

　　Making soap the old way?

　　The inherited craftsmanship of ancient soap making appeared before Sang Jiu's eyes. It only needed to be made by mixing animal oil, wood ash and lye. If you wanted it to be cleaner, you could add calcium carbonate and other ingredients. If you wanted it to be more luxurious and fragrant, you could add various flower spices.

　　The method of making it is quite simple. Sang Jiu was just worried about having oil on her hands that she couldn't wash clean, so she might as well give it a try.

　　When she was thinking about gathering the ingredients, the big cat next to her rubbed her leg and looked towards the iron pot, indicating that it was time to stew the potatoes.

　　"All you know is eating." In fact, Sang Jiu was hungry after giving it a bath, so she turned around to get potatoes to stew the meat. When preparing the meat, she happened to see the mutant rabbit's offal oil in the basin. Hey, isn't one of the ingredients here?

　　She first threw a few rabbit bones into the fire and let them burn slowly. After they were ready, she started to cut and boil the oil.

　　The offal oil was originally intended to be used to lubricate the pot for cooking, and it happened to be made all at once. While she was boiling the oil, the big cat squatted beside her, drooling at the aroma of the oil.

　　"Why are you so greedy?" Sang Jiu picked up a piece of fried brown oil residue, blew on it, and then handed it to the big cat, "Then I'll give you a piece."

　　The big cat stretched out its tongue and rolled the fried food to eat. The oil residue was very small and it only tasted a little bit and then it was gone. Then it stretched its head and stared at the oil residue in the pot, wanting to eat another piece.

　　Sang Jiu raised her hand to block its big head: "Keep your head away, or we'll have to serve an extra dish later - braised cat's head."

　　Braised cat head?

　　Big cat blinks, is it delicious?

　　"Why do you eat yourself? You are a glutton, right?" Sang Jiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry, but she also felt that the big cat was quite interesting and added some fun to her life.

　　The big cat was confused: What is glutton? Is it delicious?

　　"It's not food, it's a greedy beast." Sang Jiu said as she looked at the oil in the pot again. The aroma of the oil filled the air and she became a little greedy: "This rabbit oil is pretty good. It should be good for cooking, boiling noodles, and making hot pot."

"It's a pity that there's not enough. The fat from the rabbit a few days ago should have been saved. It's a pity that it wasn't used to make the fat." Sang Jiu said in annoyance. She saw the big cat's eyes light up when she heard the name of the food. She couldn't help but laugh. "You're too greedy. How about I give you a name? A name that suits your greedy temperament."

　　Big Cat Blinks: Name?

　　Little greedy? Good eater?

　　Sang Jiu thought about it carefully and said, "Let's call it Explosive Wealth."

　　Big Cat was confused: ???

　　Sang Jiu raised her lips and said, "This is a good wish for you. Only when you become rich can you eat all the food you want."

　　The big cat winks cunningly and says it can get free food and drinks by following you, so why does it want to get rich quickly?